48. Eternal Optimism: Moving Beyond Self-Defeating Thoughts and Behavior
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael delve into pessimism as a form of self-sabotage and how it actually doesn’t come from us but, rather, from what the kabbalists call the ‘negative inclination,’ or ego. Listen as they discuss ways in which to become more aware of our true essence so that we can constantly diminish our self-destructive thoughts and actions and, thereby, set ourselves up for lasting fulfillment.
Living in a state where you believe that you are deserving and capable will most often lead to you manifesting good things in your life. – Michael Berg
Further readings:
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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| 0:00.0 | What you're saying is the self that you're |
| 0:10.0 | sabotaging that perhaps you'll never reveal or recognize is the truest self. |
| 0:17.0 | It's the highest, most elevated state of your being. |
| 0:20.0 | Right. And I would even say that the foundation |
| 0:23.5 | for all the other self-sabotage that we do, that is more known and more obvious, is the fact that we |
| 0:29.7 | have not decided to live from the truest part of me, my soul, my essence. And often people are, |
| 0:36.3 | well, I don't know what I came to this world to do. And they really struggle with finding what they're passionate about. But the key here is |
| 0:41.8 | just stop focusing on the little minutia of things. That's such a small way to live a life. |
| 0:47.5 | For all the things that we do, from great to small, what is the driving force? Is it the elevated |
| 0:53.8 | self or the soul? |
| 0:55.0 | Or is it all the other possible drivers? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, then you're self-sabotaging all the time and you're not even aware of it because you're not living your life. |
| 1:09.0 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 48. |
| 1:11.6 | Yay. |
| 1:12.6 | Hey, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:14.6 | We are going to talk about a big topic known as self-sabotage. |
| 1:20.6 | And it's something we all do, except for maybe Michael. |
| 1:36.3 | And I think most of us don't want to really admit the extent of which we do it or we're not really aware of how or when we do it. |
| 1:43.5 | So it's basically what makes us do things we know we don't really want to do or things that we know aren't really good for us. Often there's a battle |
| 1:45.2 | that occurs in our heads the struggle between I won't and I shouldn't or I'm in charge and I can't |
| 1:50.7 | control this. So really, why can't we stop something even when we know better? And there are four |
| 1:58.5 | ways we self-sabotage, in my opinion. We're not going to get to all of them today. So this is |
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